Job ID: FL-PR672212-R128966 (98590130)
Remote/Local Cost Accountant with project-based costing, transportation financials, QA, Visio, Agile, SCRUM, mainframe/Cobol, UML, and financial BA experience
Location: Tallahassee, FL (DOT)
Duration: 12 Months
Description
Prior knowledge of cost accounting or project-based costing standards and best practices.
2. Prior experience developing and analyzing cost standards
3. Proven ability to analyze a project and properly calculate values for materials costs, labor
costs, and overhead costs associated with the project
4. Knowledge of financial management best practices which can be translated to
transportation financial practices.
5. Ability to produce legible and complete functional documentation in a way that
thoroughly captures business processes and inputs/outputs of the applications.
6. Ability to analyze and accurately and completely define processes and workflows to
design efficient information solutions, including missing or duplicate functionality in
existing applications.
7. Ability to develop and manage business and information systems technical documentation
in accordance with the Department’s standards
8. Skill in testing complex applications and interpreting whether requirements
and designs were met in the product.
9. Ability to work effectively with Project Managers, Business Analysts, Data Analysts,
and Technical Architects to build efficient, viable solutions in the maintenance of
business applications utilizing all established Departmental standards.
10. Ability to prepare computer program test plans and to create test databases and test
environments.
11. Ability to interpret and communicate technical information related to
computer programming and data processing, both verbally and in writing.
12. Advanced skills with Microsoft products: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio.
13. Experience working on accounting and financial computing applications and
monitoring complex interfaces with external systems.
14. Knowledge of Agile Project Management methodologies and practices.
15. Knowledge of the SCRUM Framework.
Preferred KSAs
16. Skill in performing QA reviews and provide valuable feedback in determining that
standards are met and that documents are complete and comprehensive.
17. Knowledge of legacy technology such as mainframe and Cobol.
18. Skill in data conversion techniques, data cleansing approaches and validating data
relationships.
19. Basic knowledge of Universal Modeling Language (UML) and supporting enterprise tools to
document business processes and data lineage, collect requirements, develop test scripts,
and manage traceability.
Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, finance, or accounting is preferred though work
experience in these fields can be substituted for the educational requirement.
Candidates must have a minimum of 5 years’ experience working in cost accounting or project
costing OR experience working as a business analyst supporting the cost accounting functions of
an organization.
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